Old Fashioned Kitchen

Wow, beautiful kitchen!

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I love it! It looks so comfy and warm.Thank you for sharing. Queen Bee

We bought ours from:
www.stovesandmoreonline.com
The people are really great to work with. We had some problems with the trucking company and they went above and beyond to get things taken care of.

I use it around the holidays when I'm baking a lot. Other than that I don't sift a lot of flour. I put a block under my bowl to get it closer to the sifter, that way it isn't messy. It was in the Hoosier when I bought it at auction. It also has the spice racks, cookbook rack, etc., in it. Very cool.

You have a lovely old fashioned kitchen...something to be proud of and I love that stove! Just had to show it to DH.

I have a hoosier but I don't keep my flour in the bin because I'm afraid of bugs plus I like to grind it as I need it so I don't keep over a few pounds of any one type ground at a time. The one thing I did that has made my life easier is to store all my baking supplies in it so when I'm making any kind of bread every item I need is in one place except for the milk and butter.

Wow such beautiful kitchen.
Did you use cut stone or cultured stone behind your stove?
We have been looking for an old wood stove to restore.A stove like your's might be a better choice.

It's cultured stone. Very nice to work with when installing. Got a good deal on it because the crate it was in had been dropped and some of the stones had marks and scrapes on them.

We used an old restored Wherle stove for years. But, it just does not compare to this airtight stove and, as I mentioned earlier, the size of the firebox is just unbeatable.

I have the flour bin out of my hoosier while I restore it and had not decided whether to put it back in or not. I will have to have a gas or electric stove as well as a wood one because here in lower Alabama we don't have really cold weather that much and I sure wouldn't want to have to use a wood stove when it is 55 or 60 degrees outside. I have a wood heater and it has to be real cold to use it or I have to open the windows to cool off the house.

I am totally drooling over your beautiful Hoosier & cook stove!

I have always wanted a Hoosier myself, i been watching the papers but no luck yet!
We have an old old cook stove, its white and had belonged to my husbands great grand mother and his grandmother and now us.

Your kitchen is beautiful! I am in awww

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Absolutely gorgeous! Thanks for sharing your kitchen with us!

May I ask, what is the inscription in the stone above the cookstove? I am alwaya curious when I see things like that!!! Also, what kind fo floor is that under the hoosier? OK, done being nosey

Beautiful kitchen....I would never want to go into any other room in my house if that was my kitchen LOL!!!!

Shawna

That's my brand, Lazy J5. It was my grandmother's and was used on their purebred Hereford cattle. I was blessed to inherit it.

My floor is just stained plywood. Can't decide what I want, and have been living on plywood since we built the house in '91. The nice thing is, if something is spilled, pet messes, ect., I don't worry about it. Have been thinking about cork, but don't know yet.

Oh, It's absolutely beautiful!!!

We have the pioneer maid and love it but I often wish I could see the fire. I've never heard of your stove. If I had I think I would have saved up a bit longer! It's gorgeous.

Thanks for sharing,

Pauline

Adding my love for it.... absolutely LOVELY. I sooo want that stove!

Very, very nice! Congradulations on a job well done!

We debated long and hard regarding having freestanding cupboards like your Hooiser versus built-in cupboards like we ended up with.

Now, how about some photos of the rest of your kitchen....like the sink area and eating area. Do you have any countertops or other cupboards? Do you have an old-fashion frig? Curious minds need to know.

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Lovely and inspiring...and yes to what Cabin Fever said...mo' pics

We're still in the 'planning and scrounging' stage, so seeing what others have done is mighty inspirational.

I'd have my office in the kitchen if that were my kitchen!!

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Dang, I'm a batchelor, and I love your kitchen!

Very nice!

Beautiful kitchen, my dream on cold night (hopefull not a lot of them left before spring) is now of your cookstove. Amazing.

On the cork flooring option, we installed it for a homeowner a couple of years ago, they love it, we had to put commercail grade sealant on it. If it is going to be in an area with possibility of water spillage might want to think about mixing flooring, doesn't handle water well, or be sure to wipe up quickly!

Also will show traffic patterns much quicker than other flooring options. The couple we installed for was an couple 40-50's with no kids, no pets. have to sweep/vacumme regularly to prevent grit putting grooves into it.

But after living with my cold tile floors I wouldn't mind some warm cork flooring, and everyone I have heard of using it loves it.

That's a neat stove. I love old kitchens - I really enjoyed the pictures.

Here are photos of the kitchen in our current home, a 1905 frame city house. Not historically accurate to any period, but we worked with the elements we had at hand. The sink came out of a dairy barn in Georgetown OH and we bought it at a yard sale. I built the upper cabinets around the set of leaded glass doors we got at an auction. The sink base was one of those built-to-look-old pieces from maybe 30 years ago. I cut out one of the upper drawers to seat the sink. The floor tiles we installed are meant for commercial use - we bought them to get pure green and white colors.

We also like the look of freestanding cabinets in an old kitchen. One of the nice things about having kitchen "furniture" like our old stepback is that you can take them with you when you move.

We have a beautiful 1930s Chambers gas range that I planned to put in here, but it is so heavy that I have found excuses to leave it in storage. The electric range shown here came with the house and is so darn practical, anyway, so we will keep using it for the present.

At first we were worried about lack of storage space. A lot of our kitchen gadgets, bric-a-brac and redundant dishes went in the basement and a year later we have retrieved almost none of it. The lack of counter space is a slight issue, but it has made us more efficient during food prep and we get by.

It is just beautiful! I was just talking in another forum about us getting a wood cookstove, but like someone else stated here it is so hot in the summers here in SW Arkansas that we would absolutely just die from the heat of it. Is there any way to adjust the heat in the wood cookstoves or maybe I could put it on my back porch and use it there. Anyway it looks just beautiful, you are very blessed.

I have a scrounged cracked old wood cookstove I plan to put in the outdoor kitchen I'm WAITING to build. I thought it would make a nice "buffet"/sideboard kind of thing also for outdoor picnics in summer. I'd LOVE a hoosier cabinet, and I woud so USE it. It drives me nuts when people fill them up with nic nacs

I love kitchen pix, very nice everyone!

I live in an a-frame, I'll have to take pix and start an a-frame thread to see how others solve the slanty wall issue